Tag: Housegate
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It’s a swimming pool
We took up a plank of the engineered floor in the kitchen today, to conduct some archaeology and work out how everything is put together. With the plank up, we folded the membrane back to look at the concrete underneath, and the water ran off the membrane underside in rivulets. Bugger. We have two options…
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Stripped kitchen, stripping ensuite
Progress of sorts. Kitchen wet wall has been stripped back to the bare concrete blocks. It looks like the plaster and insulation might have been resting directly on soil instead of on a waterproof base – will be confirming that today with the builder. A bit of archaeology says that I’ve got an engineered wood…
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The saga of doom continues
Ensuite The third bedroom has been stripped and re-rendered with sand/cement scratch. When this was happening, some tiles fell off the wall in the ensuite bathroom, revealing that behind the tiling is black mould of some sort. How it’s growing behind the tiles is beyond me. The Saniflow macerator also decided to have conniptions, leaking…
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Every single time I think we’re making progress…
Well, we are making progress on the house, but it feels like backwards progress some days. After looking at the back wall of the second bedroom on Friday gone, I told the builder to strip it back and thermal board it. Like other walls, it was covered in 20 – 30 mm of gypsum. Post-stripping,…
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State of the house
Things are better at this point; the flashing is looking good on the party wall, the walls in the living room are drying, and we’re about at the stage where the radiators can be attached. The front area of the house is a lot neater now that the big pile has been removed via a…
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Skimming underway
Over the last week or so, the electrician has been taking up floorboards and getting holes knocked into walls; a standard skip arrived, got filled, and was removed; the builder finished boarding out the ceiling under the back bedroom, and has started skimming. On the note of the skimming – this guy is good; the…